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There's a pretty good chance that if you are a 40+ British geek, the mere mention of "Elite" will roll back the years to hours of gameplay in front of a BBC Model B, flying a wireframe starship around an almost limitless universe. Trading, fighting, arms-dealing, slavery, whatever it took to get respect and the coveted Elite status. Even now,
Fluff can be a PC killer as I recently discovered, but the solution to the problem is straightforward. As a true geek, I built my own PC, but it's no speed demon with a mid-range quad-core processor. However, I'd been suffering from intermittent PC shutdowns that would always happen when I was at the PC and never when the PCs
iTwin is billed as an "infinite capacity thumb drive" but this sells the device short - it's much more than this. Andy finds out what its capable of from Akash at CES Showstoppers. The basic premise of iTwin is a pair of USB devices, one of which goes in your work desktop, the other in your home (or laptop) computer.
Nyxio is a new company that is looking to integrate your computer and your TV. They have a product, the VioSphere, which literally splits your monitor screen into half PC and half television. The VioSphere is a touch-screen monitor that has a built-in web-cam and microphone to allow you to video-conference while you are watching that big game on the
This looks more like an instrument of torture than any kind of bird I've seen but fortunately it's not and it's actually the virtual reality controller from Leonar3Do's desktop VR kit. Andy and Courtney breathe a sigh of relief and chat to Stewart Oldroyd from Leonar3Do. Hungarian start-up have created "the world's first desktop VR kit", consisting of the scary
AikenLabs Immersive Motion Accessory System is a body-worn motion controller that takes real world actions and puts them into video games. Andy checks out some moves with Ethan from AikenLabs. The Immersive Motion Accessory System comprises small black boxes worn on bands that connect wirelessly to a master controller which in turn, is connected to PC or game console via
Sony's CES focus this year is on electronics, content and network services combining to deliver high quality entertainment anytime and anywhere. Supported by a slew of product announcements, new connected devices range from TVs, Blu-ray players and A/V receivers through to tablets, smartphones and PCs and on to camcorders and mobile music players. Sony is combining these with online services